We are starting on a clean slate today guys.
Good morning KIB students. I don't need to ask how the weekends were for all of us.
Gory images everywhere on social media, but we shall get through that.
Your Tisha cannot even be controversial for one second...LOL. I saw people I have never seen before break out of their cocoon to come shut me up for posting somebody's ideology about 'secession'. Then again, the use of 'oneness' on August 6th ,2017 was seen as hideous as it derogatorily connotes 'the half of a yellow sun'. My apologies to the students who felt bitter about that.
The post was was ill-timed and that made people interpret it as 'immature'.
So let's get down to brass tacks.
Contractions. Yes, contractions. Why do we fail to use these contractions well?
I am is reduced to I'm . Those who use 'am' should stop using it.
'Am' cannot stand on its own. If it can, then 'is' and 'are' can.
Those who say
"Am here with you".
Can go ahead and say "is here with me' and 'are here with me'.
Does it make sense? No it doesn't.
'You are' is shortened to 'you're' and not 'your'
Your back doesn't mean you're back.
'They are' is contracted as 'they're' and not 'their' or 'there'. This particular problem is an issue with native speakers because the three words are homophones.
Nigerians have different ways of pronouncing the three.
There /dia/
Their /dia/
They're /de/
To native speakers the three sounds are pronounced as /ˈðeə/ , although 'they're' can alternatively be pronounced as / ˈðeɪə/.
To understand the pronunciation
Air is pronounced as /eə/.
Their, there an they're are pronounced as
(thair).
Do you get it now?
Finally lets look at these words.
Soar, roar, hoarse, coarse, oar .
They are not pronounced as
Ro-ar, so-ar, o-ar, co-arse, ho-arse.
No. These pronunciations are incorrect.
Rather
Soar is pronounced as Sore.
Oar is Or.
Roar is Raw
Coarse is Course.
Hoarse is horse.
Well, incorporate these ones in your spoken English and see how amazing you sound.
Don't hoard the knowledge. Share with someone and tell them about King Ifey Academy that has begun in Port Harcourt. They will immensely gain from it.
The class with King Ifey is done and dusted. Amy and Marvel please get my bag. Somebody please wipe the board clean. I am travelling to Cambodia today. I need to find out why the president is so unconcerned about the innocent girls sold by their mums to predators who put them in a showcase for men to come and rent them for a night. The man is fighting a Christian NGO for tarnishing the image of his country. I pity the countrymen of Cambodia. See you all later.
*walks out of the class and peeps through the window*
I hope you all won't let my blog school run to seed. Invite your friends to subscribe. You never can tell, we might eventually be as big as Huffington's post.
Don't ask me what 'run to seed' mean. I have talked about it before.
Toodles.
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